Psyche ward patient charged with choking fellow patient

Published 3:03 pm, Wednesday, May 30, 2012

NORWALK -- A Norwalk Hospital psyche ward patient was arrested Tuesday and charged with choking a female patient who he had never talked to, police said.

Stephen Wilson, 56, of 17 Nelson St., Norwalk was charged with second-degree strangulation and at his arraignment ordered held in lieu of $10,000 bond.

According to Wilson's arrest warrant, a woman in the Psyche Ward at the hospital called police on the morning of March 17 to report that Wilson had choked her the night before.

The woman said she was eating dinner in the day room while talking to another man when Wilson came up behind her and slammed his hands down on her shoulders.

He then wrapped his hands around her neck and began choking her for no apparent reason. The woman said she did not know Wilson and had never talked to him before. The man she was talking to corroborated her story.